Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Kyle Michael Roche

David Craig Yanacek

David Chiapperino

James Christopher Sorenson

Christopher Russell Chiappone

Christine Morten

Timothy Kellogg

Shyam Krishnamoorthy

Christoph Saalfeld

Alexandra Elizabeth Baoboe Lee

Tristam Kyle MacDonald

Gary Keith Wicker

Justin Robert Knoepfler

Bryant Cutler

Vasily Vasinov

Steve Martin Suhy

Frank Lovecchio

Qing Ju

Jonathan I Turow

Ganesh Viswanathan

Leo Chan

Kathleen Alison Curry

A network-connected device service receives a request to establish a communications session with a network-connected device. In response to the request, the service transmits a set of electronic messages to the network-connected device through an access point of the network-connected device to establish the communications session. The network-connected device service receives a notification from the network-connected device indicating whether the communications session has been established. If so, the service provides an indication to a controlling device that the session has been established. This enables the controlling device to submit commands executable by the network-connected device to the service, which provides the commands to the network-connected device through the access point.

Enabling communications between a controlling device and a network-controlled device via a network-connected device service over a mobile communications network

A publish-subscribe messaging method may include identifying a definition of a transformation rule for transforming a message received from a publisher. The message may be received from the publisher at a broker. The message may identify a topic and may include message data. A determination may be made as to whether the message is associated with a transformation rule for transforming the message. The method may further include transforming the message as defined by the transformation rule and sending the transformed message to a destination.

Publish-subscribe message transformation

Technology for publish-subscribe message updates is provided. In one example, a publish-subscribe messaging method may include receiving a message from a publisher. The message may include a tuple defining message data and a source identifier identifying a data source to update the message. The publication may be queued in a queue for publication to a subscriber. Updated message data may be retrieved from the data source identified in the tuple when the message reaches an update point of the queue. The updated message data may be inserted in the message to generate an updated message which may be published to the subscriber.

Publish-subscribe message updates

Functionality is disclosed herein for using a framework for a VR/AR application to utilize different services. In some configurations, a VR/AR application can utilize different services, such as an animation service, a multi-modal disambiguation service, a virtual platform service, a recognition service, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service, a text-to-speech (TTS) service, a search service, as well as one or more other services. Instead of a developer of the VR/AR application having to develop programming code to implement features provided by one or more of services, the developer may utilize functionality of existing services that are available from a service provider network.

Virtual spaces as a platform

A provisioning device may be shipped to a client and used to automatically provision an IoT device to join a local network to communicate with a remote service provider. In response to a trigger input, the provisioning device creates a wireless hotspot that is recognizable by an IoT device as a provisioning hotspot. The provisioning device receives a signal from the IoT device indicating that the IoT device is available to be provisioned. The provisioning device obtains provisioning data and transmits the provisioning data to the IoT device. The IoT device uses the provisioning data to connect to a local wireless network and to establish a connection to the remote service provider. The IoT device may then use one or more IoT services of the service provider.

Auto-provisioning device

Visual effects such as bleach bypass, sepia tone conversion, cross processing, custom effects, and many others may be applied to video streams before they are displayed to viewers. In some examples, different visual effects may be applied to the same underlying video content, such as on a viewer-by-viewer basis or at other levels of granularity, thereby allowing certain particular visual effects to be targeted to particular viewers/devices. The visual effects may be applied by one or more of a content provider, a video streaming service, one or more viewers, or by other entities. The visual effects may be applied based at least in part on instructions from the provider, such as one or more tags, for example that may be issued via an interface provided by a video streaming service.

Targeted video streaming post-production effects

A controlling device scans a label of a network-connected device to obtain a first set of information from a primary layer of the label, where the first set of information is about the network-connected device. The controlling device scans the label to obtain a second set of information from a secondary layer of the label, whereby the secondary layer is distinct from the primary layer. The controlling device transmits a request to a device server associated with the network-connected device to obtain device records for the device, whereby the request includes the second set of information. In response to the request, the controlling device receives the one or more device records.

Device state information access through machine-readable labels

A socket service may be used to link a peer socket to another peer socket. The peer socket is for communicating data to and from a client device and the other peer socket is for communicating data to and from another client device. If a socket opens and the corresponding peer socket is not yet open then the socket waits for the corresponding peer socket to open. When a client device requests a socket to be opened, the client device requests a particular client-defined function mapping to be associated with the socket. When the socket is opened, the endpoint specified in the client-defined function mapping is invoked. An identifier associated with the client device is sent to the endpoint. If the endpoint returns a socket identifier for another socket, then the socket service links the peer socket to the other peer socket, linking the client device to another client device.

Socket peering

A group of available virtual objects may each have a respective rule set that indicates how a corresponding available virtual object may be used to augment a physical environment. In some examples, the rule sets may be determined based at least in part on sample images that show approved settings or locations for the available virtual objects. To augment a physical space, one or more characteristics of the physical space may be determined, such as contexts, surface characteristics, and others. The rule sets for the available virtual objects may then be compared to the characteristics of the physical space to determine approved virtual objects that are approved for use to augment the physical space. A selected virtual object may then be selected from the approved virtual objects and inserted into a view of the physical space to create an augmented view of the physical space.

Rule-based augmentation of a physical environment

A technology is described for streaming object data for a virtual object to a simulation client and dynamically incorporating the virtual object into a simulation environment in response to detecting an interactive event in the simulation environment. An example method may include receiving an indication of an interactive event associated with a simulation environment, where the indication of the interactive event may be sent over a network by a simulation client configured to execute the simulation environment. In response to receiving the indication of the interactive event, object data for a virtual object linked to the interactive event may be identified. An audio stream for the virtual object may be obtained, and the object data and the audio stream may be streamed to the simulation client and the virtual object may be incorporated in the simulation environment.

Streaming virtual objects for incorporation in virtual environments

Disambiguation of virtual reality information using multi-modal data including speech

A socket service may be used to implement client-defined function mappings (e.g., custom protocols) for sockets hosted by the socket service so that when a particular socket is opened for a particular client device, the socket operates according to a particular client-defined function mapping requested by the particular client device. To establish a particular client-defined function mapping, a socket manager may receive request from a user that specifies a particular endpoint (e.g., a client-registered function). When a client device requests a socket to be opened, the client device requests the particular client-defined function mapping to be associated with the socket. When the socket is opened, the endpoint is invoked. The particular client-defined function mapping may also specify one or more receive criteria for data received at the socket. If the one or more receive criteria is met, the endpoint is invoked by sending the data to the endpoint.

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Kyle Michael Roche